No.47
Did anyone else think Aragorn should be Samoan or at least half-black, Half-Samoan?
I just thought it would suit him in my mind
No.338
New Hobbit audiobook read by Andy Serkis coming this September:
https://twitter.com/TolkienSociety/status/1278659454427451393 No.347
After halting at the first few chapters of The Two Towers some years ago I decided to finish it recently in part because of the webring radio stream.
Still good, the movies didn't feel like much back then but as soon as I touched Fellowship (after Hobbit) it clicked that it was all about Middle Earth, a nice memory.
No.440
>>47Samoans didn't exist back then
No.1068
>>1064There is another thing that stood out to me; during Bilbo's birthday party the large dragon fireworks is compared to a train.
No.1069
>>1064In The Hobbit, it's mentioned that ravens are intelligent, have a language of their own, and are allies with dwarves. If I had to guess, the fox in Fellowship is there because the early part of that book still retains the lighthearted fairy tale atmosphere that The Hobbit had, but nothing of that sort shows up again because the story gradually transitions into a darker epic.
>>1068It's a conceit of the author that LOTR is a historical account of stuff that happened thousands of years ago in this world. The train is mentioned as a comparison for modern readers to understand, not something the ancient characters would have described it as.
No.1373
>>1365Gnome is another word for Noldor in Tolkien's universe.
No.1380
>>1373In the early drafts.
No.1410
>>1402I watched a LOTR + Hobbit limited made for tv doc series on
Amazog Prime that featured interviews with his family and publisher that mentioned this.
I can somewhat see the connection, lembas bread always seemed somwhat holy, but I don't think it carries the air of absolute sacredness that the Eucharist does. Profaning the Eucharist is probably the most profound sacrilege possible (other than maybe destroying a piece of the true cross or something of similar stature), I don't get that from lembas.
Side note: the intensely sacred nature of the Eucharist is why there have been cases of witches stealing communion waifers for use in rituals. Luckily heathen theologylets can't into understanding when transubstantiation takes place.
No.1483
>>1410>Luckily heathen theologylets can't into understanding when transubstantiation takes place.sounds like a catholic cope to me bro
No.1511
>>1402>In the last years of his life, Tolkien resisted some of the liturgical changes implemented after the Second Vatican Council, especially the use of English for the liturgy; he continued to make the responses in Latin, ignoring the rest of the congregation.Hello, based department?
>>1410Some of them know, so they steal the ones that matter. Some even don't bother stealing ones from Novus Ordo masses.
No.2809
OH NO NO NO NO NO
No.3475
>>46Grifters trying to please Amazon are using Morgoth's Ring as their argument for nigger eldar, Galadriel Xena, etc.
No.5630
Tolkien is getting a lot of hate in recent times, no only by political freaks but also fantasy fans.
No.5649
>>5630I think that's because 90-95% of all fantasy writers after him just recycle his works over and over, to the point where fantasy as a genre has become quite stale. It's not Tolkien's fault though.
No.5783
>>5630>fantasy fansyou mean redditors who fap to Amiri putting men in their place before sucking an entire orc tribe dry ? i wouldn't call them fantasy fans they're just degens who picked fantasy as an aesthetic background for their sick fantasies
No.5791
I have plans to start rereading the Lord of the Rings in its entirety for the third time in my life.
I first read it during my childhood, then in my 20s and now in my 30s.
No.5806
>>5804What's the deep lore about that draw???
>>5791I'm doing it atm too. Sadly am not having much free time.
No.5848
It's been almost a month and I haven't finished rereading The Lord of the Rings. I'm not enjoying it as much as I did last time.